- Don't have to test on multiple browsers.
- Can upgrade the browser engine automatically with application updates and tie new features to iTunes version
- Less risk of HTML hacking (source is much harder to get to), increases entrance barrier
- Long term goal of familiarizing Windows users with a mac style interface.
Let them use iTunes for that, why not. But why not let me browse the selection on the web. I think you can also buy the stuff directly from the phone once you have one.
How about because you're not their target market? Businesses exist for profit, and their resources are not unlimited, they clearly put their efforts into their customers, you know, the ones with iPods for whom iTunes exists. Their business is rocking, they have no need to chase you.
but the thing is, that's a huge hassle. buying on a website, syncing in an app. what i really like about iTunes is how it's very tightly integrated with everything I use iTunes with/for. no webapp will be able to pull that off.
however, unless you mean explicitly browsing, in which case i might be inclined to agree because of the iTunes store links that only work in iTunes...that are useless if you don't have iTunes installed.
<irony>I guess web applications were the wrong approach all this time.</irony>
I am surprised that it is still possible to buy applications for OS X anywhere. Why don't they tie OS X to the iTunes store as well?
In fact, why doesn't Apple just create it's own internet, completely isolated from the real internet?
Edit: one reason I can accept (just barely): pushing apps directly onto the phone if bought in the shop. I still think there should be a way to view the apps available in a browser.
How about some business reasons?
- Don't have to test on multiple browsers. - Can upgrade the browser engine automatically with application updates and tie new features to iTunes version - Less risk of HTML hacking (source is much harder to get to), increases entrance barrier - Long term goal of familiarizing Windows users with a mac style interface.